Paleoecology

Latest research

1. Antarctic ice-shelf collapse in Holocene driven by meltwater release feedbacks

   • Yusuke Suganuma
   • Takuya Itaki
   • Hideki Miura

   in Nature Geoscience

   Article Open access 07 November 2025

   

2. Novel perspectives on Late Cretaceous elasmobranch diversity in the Southern Hemisphere high latitudes

   • Arnaud Begat
   • Jürgen Kriwet
   • Thomas Martin

   in PalZ

   Article Open access 07 November 2025

   

3. Diversity patterns of bats in caves of Southern Espinhaço Range, Brazil

   • Marina Martins Bento
   • Leonardo H. Dias da Silva
   • Adriano Pereira Paglia

   in Mammalian Biology

   Article 07 November 2025

   

4. First description of fossil remains of the giant mustelid Eomellivora (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Late Miocene of the Shouyang Basin (China)

   • Andrés Fernández-Reyes
   • Qigao Jiangzuo
   • Alberto Valenciano

   in PalZ

   Article Open access 06 November 2025

   

5. Sedimentology and biostratigraphy of the Cretaceous–Paleocene successions in Northern Pakistan: evidence from the Hazara, Kala Chitta, Potwar, and Kohat Basins

   • Syed Kamran Ali
   • Hafiz Sohaib Bashir
   • Khawaja Umair Majeed

   in Carbonates and Evaporites

   Article 06 November 2025

   

6. Isotopic evidence for elevated photorespiration during the last glacial period

   • Max K. Lloyd
   • Rebekah S. Sprengel
   • Daniel A. Stolper

   in Nature Geoscience

   Article 05 November 2025

   

7. Fossil evidence for trait diversification in an adaptive radiation

   • Nare Ngoepe
   • Salome Mwaiko
   • Moritz Muschick

   in Scientific Reports

   Article Open access 05 November 2025

   

8. Gatekeeping in interdisciplinary fields: the case of paleontology after the Modern Synthesis

   • María Alejandra Petino Zappala

   in Synthese

   Article Open access 05 November 2025

9. First hypsocormine pachycormid in the Early Jurassic and its evolutionary implications for Pachycormidae (Actinopterygii: Teleosteomorpha)

   • Samuel L. A. Cooper
   • Erin E. Maxwell

   in PalZ

   Article Open access 04 November 2025

   

10. Paracolpoda steinii (Ciliophora, Colpodida) from ancient Siberian permafrost: insights into cryptic diversity

    • Anastasia Shatilovich
    • Svetlana Bykova
    • Elena Krivina

    in Polar Biology

    Article 04 November 2025

    

11. A new graptolite (Pterobranchia) from the early Cambrian Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte of China

    • Jie Yang
    • Qing-hao Guo
    • Xi-guang Zhang

    in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

    Article Open access 04 November 2025

    

12. Caves record permafrost-free North Greenland under moderate Late Miocene CO₂ levels

    in Nature Geoscience

    Article 04 November 2025

    

13. Integrated biostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian-Danian sequence in the southern Tethys with insights into paleoenvironmental implications

    • Ramadan M. El-Kahawy
    • Aya Raafat

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 04 November 2025

    

14. The Holotypes of Patagonichornis venetiorum Casamiquela 1996 and Tridigitichnus inopinatus Casamiquela 1996 Vertebrate Ichnotaxa (Late Cretaceous, Patagonia): History and Patrimonial Significance

    • Ignacio Díaz-Martínez
    • Sofía Urzagasti-Torres
    • Silvina de Valais

    in Geoheritage

    Article Open access 03 November 2025

    

15. The Chicxulub post-impact carbonate sequence in the Yaxcopoil-1 borehole, southern crater terrace zone

    • Ligia Pérez-Cruz
    • Juana Elia Escobar-Sanchez
    • Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi

    in Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica

    Article Open access 03 November 2025

16. Exploring the influence of microbialite microfabrics and diagenetic evolution on reservoir quality: the key role of detailed petrography

    • R. del C. Frías-Saba
    • P. G. Villafañe
    • S. de Valais

    in Facies

    Article 03 November 2025

    

17. Declining bottom-water oxygen concentrations recorded by subfossil chironomid assemblages follow climate-driven changes in thermal stratification

    • Dylan J. Lansing
    • Emma L. Graves
    • John P. Smol

    in Journal of Paleolimnology

    Article 01 November 2025

    

18. Trigonotarbids (Arachnida) hidden in plant debris from a Late Pennsylvanian tropical forest at El Bierzo, Castilla y León, Spain

    • Artai A. Santos
    • Jason A. Dunlop
    • Stephen McLoughlin

    in PalZ

    Article Open access 01 November 2025

    

19. First Records of Chara baltica (Characeae, Streptophyta) in Azerbaijan

    • V. S. Vishnyakov
    • I. Blindow

    in Inland Water Biology

    Article 31 October 2025

    

20. Biostratigraphy of calcareous nannofossils and ostracods from the upper Paleocene-lower Eocene Kolosh Formation at Qaradagh Mountain, Sulaymaniyah Area, Kurdistan Region in Iraq

    • Razaw A. Qadafary
    • Zardasht A. Taha
    • Soran O. A. Kharajiany

    in Carbonates and Evaporites

    Article 31 October 2025

    

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